After a few days of chaos, something to celebrate about February’s Oscar telecast: Billy Crystal is returning to host. Crystal’s tweet beat out any Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ release — and this week they’ve been cranking them.

“Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions,” the most popular host since Bob Hope tweeted. “Looking forward to the show.”

Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences along with eight other industry organizations –the Screen Actors Guild, the American Society of Cinematographers, Directors Guild of America among them–issued statements decrying the treatment of Iranian filmmakers by their government. Closer to home Read more…

Lisa Kennedy has been The Denver Post film critic for quite a spell. The job returned her to the town she grew up in after 20 years of living elsewhere: mostly in New York City. During the time she's been back, she was voted into the National Society of Film Critics, a first for a Colorado reviewer. When she began Diary of a Mad Moviegoer, she wasn't just cribbing from Tyler Perry. In fact, she seldom goes all Madea on movies, thinking the gig is more like a conversation than a competition about who's right about which flick.